Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-18-26 hour 2

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0:05 Speaker 2: We're back from the brains.

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0:50 Speaker 4: Close my, I see you're so fifted.

0:56 Speaker 3: Here's way and see go that that's a smell long

1:04 Speaker 3: never forget, Oh yeah.

1:26 Speaker 5: Home, mad line.

1:30 Speaker 6: Sometimes I cry because I wish you will she rub

1:36 Speaker 6: on my sign and you tattooed. Don't be now, You'll never.

1:44 Speaker 7: We ran out a side a mad.

1:48 Speaker 8: Line, mad line, Morning rides in the bad scene, hold til.

2:21 Speaker 3: Splay and why you sing into me? It's been so

2:27 Speaker 3: long since you've been overrid.

2:32 Speaker 9: Those we can fears.

2:34 Speaker 3: It still overwhelmed me.

2:40 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, oh man lie.

3:00 Speaker 6: And sometimes I cry because I wish you will heed

3:06 Speaker 6: rama sign and your attude. Don't be now, You'll never.

3:14 Speaker 11: Be ran out oside a man a line.

3:26 Speaker 1: Man line, lo your hair off from more time, give

3:51 Speaker 1: me my look, gizas of romatize.

3:57 Speaker 3: One, give a place, you.

3:58 Speaker 6: You one my backy you longwayst be my madter line.

4:10 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh mad lone.

4:30 Speaker 3: Sometimes I cry because I wish you will hear rap

4:37 Speaker 3: on my side and you stude.

4:40 Speaker 12: Don't be now, you never.

4:45 Speaker 13: We ran out aside a mad line, mad lone, mad line.

5:08 Speaker 12: Mad line.

5:29 Speaker 2: I love that that is called Madeline. That is Stephen

5:33 Speaker 2: de Cure and he is here with us and we're

5:35 Speaker 2: gonna talk with him in just a moment. Welcome everybody.

5:38 Speaker 2: We have entered our number two New Marrow dose of

5:40 Speaker 2: Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios

5:44 Speaker 2: of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester,

5:48 Speaker 2: New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere.

5:50 Speaker 2: I go to Matt connorton dot com slash live. Soon

5:55 Speaker 2: there will be a spoiler alert. There will be a

5:57 Speaker 2: Matt Connorton dot live and there's a brand new site

6:01 Speaker 2: coming specifically devoted to the show, so uh keep an

6:04 Speaker 2: eye out for that. And Jenny is here, of course

6:06 Speaker 2: at the news table, acounted for I love that song.

6:09 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I do too. That is really really good.

6:13 Speaker 2: And Stephen de Cura is here. Welcome.

6:14 Speaker 14: Thank you guys very much. Are you guys doing good?

6:16 Speaker 2: Good? Am I saying your name correctly?

6:18 Speaker 14: You are saying it correctly, so I thought, so.

6:20 Speaker 2: I just wanted to make sure because I remember that

6:21 Speaker 2: was a discussion last time you were here. I was like,

6:23 Speaker 2: is it to cure? Is it to Cura? Is Yeah?

6:26 Speaker 2: What is the what is the strangest I guess would

6:30 Speaker 2: be the way to put it? Uh iteration of your

6:33 Speaker 2: name that you've heard I've gotten.

6:35 Speaker 14: I've gotten a lot I've gotten. I used to got

6:39 Speaker 14: called you know one that I'm sure you could guess

6:42 Speaker 14: in high school.

6:44 Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha, gotcha, I've been.

6:46 Speaker 14: I've been called everything under the book by the last name.

6:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Do you ever have you ever seen it

6:50 Speaker 2: misspelled on a like on a poster.

6:53 Speaker 14: I've had a Q in it before they put they've

6:56 Speaker 14: put a V in it before. Really, Yeah, I don't

6:58 Speaker 14: know where they got that.

7:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't either. Oh, that's funny. That's funny.

7:03 Speaker 2: So I love this so and thank you for reading these.

7:05 Speaker 2: By the way, I do ep oh I should too.

7:07 Speaker 2: For those who are watching on YouTube or Facebook or wherever,

7:12 Speaker 2: I'll hold that up for everybody. Uh, this is the

7:14 Speaker 2: uh oh yeah, you've got one there Actually that cameras

7:17 Speaker 2: you know what, I can actually zoom in on that

7:19 Speaker 2: camera for people who are watching the program. Let me

7:23 Speaker 2: see here. Well, well, oh, I just went way off,

7:29 Speaker 2: way off. Let me fix that if I can. Oh, No,

7:33 Speaker 2: what have I done? I just I think I just

7:39 Speaker 2: completely screwed this up. I love it enough.

7:44 Speaker 14: Caffeine.

7:45 Speaker 2: Wow, I'll tell you what. Here we go. I apologize

7:48 Speaker 2: to our audio listener on his caffeine morning. It is.

7:53 Speaker 2: It is a radio show, but somehow I can't seem

7:56 Speaker 2: to uh, okay, let me try this again. He's lost

7:59 Speaker 2: in the bit. Again. Here we go. Okay, So I

8:04 Speaker 2: am zooming in. For those of you who are listening

8:07 Speaker 2: strictly to the audio, I have to tell you what's

8:08 Speaker 2: going on. I'm zooming in on the Stephen is holding

8:14 Speaker 2: up his new EP called Toward the Sound, and there's

8:17 Speaker 2: the back of it. Very very good, very good. All right,

8:20 Speaker 2: Now that we've finally I've accomplished that, I will zoom

8:23 Speaker 2: out very carefully. Why did this come outs? Even? Or

8:27 Speaker 2: is it out?

8:28 Speaker 5: So?

8:28 Speaker 14: This is actually coming out next Friday, April twenty fourth,

8:32 Speaker 14: at twelve am. It'll be live on all music platforms

8:35 Speaker 14: and I also have CDs available as you just saw,

8:37 Speaker 14: yes t shirts the whole nine Yards. April twenty fifth,

8:42 Speaker 14: I'm having an alburb rem lease party at Brownie's Pub

8:44 Speaker 14: in Thethwin Mass I'll be playing there seven to ten pm,

8:47 Speaker 14: so I will be having all the merch there. So

8:50 Speaker 14: if anybody wants to come out and check it out

8:52 Speaker 14: and get a grab a copy, please come on out.

8:54 Speaker 14: You're more than welcome.

8:54 Speaker 2: Outstanding, Outstanding. So why did you decide to do an

8:58 Speaker 2: acoustic eph to that?

9:01 Speaker 14: So this is the first EP I've ever done. This

9:03 Speaker 14: is the first time I've ever recorded music in my

9:05 Speaker 14: entire life.

9:06 Speaker 2: Oh wow.

9:07 Speaker 14: So Towards the Sun was the first song that I

9:10 Speaker 14: ever written and recorded, and I ended up getting that

9:14 Speaker 14: released on ninety two point five the River in Boston, Massachusetts.

9:17 Speaker 14: Oh yes, and that was last September that I had

9:20 Speaker 14: that released on the Homegrown series.

9:22 Speaker 2: And that's great too. You know, we we should mention

9:25 Speaker 2: that too. That's because that's a big accomplishment because obviously

9:29 Speaker 2: they get I know this for a fact. They get

9:30 Speaker 2: a lot of submissions.

9:32 Speaker 14: They you know, it's funny. I randomly just sent it

9:34 Speaker 14: in yeah and hoping, hoping for the best, and you

9:38 Speaker 14: get an email back right away. They say, listen, we

9:40 Speaker 14: get a thousand submissions a day. Oh if if we

9:43 Speaker 14: don't respond to you in a month, don't keep sending

9:45 Speaker 14: us the same song.

9:46 Speaker 2: Right.

9:47 Speaker 14: So a month later, before a gig, I got an

9:49 Speaker 14: email from them and said Hey, congratulations, we love your song.

9:51 Speaker 14: We're going to play it. I was like, this is great.

9:54 Speaker 14: So then afterwards they told me any any other music

9:56 Speaker 14: you have, please send it inm will play it for you.

9:58 Speaker 2: Outstanding. Yeah, outstanding.

10:01 Speaker 14: So I'll be trying to get some more back on

10:02 Speaker 14: the radio. Yeah this year as well.

10:04 Speaker 2: Oh, very good, very good. So yeah, so when you

10:08 Speaker 2: were with us last time, I think you just.

10:09 Speaker 14: Played live, right I did. I did play it live. Okay, okay, yeah,

10:12 Speaker 14: I think we did play Everybody's changing and towards us

10:14 Speaker 14: on on the air as well.

10:16 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, gotcha. Yeah. I love that that song, Madeline,

10:21 Speaker 2: that's really good.

10:22 Speaker 14: That's all about my grandmother.

10:24 Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay.

10:26 Speaker 14: So the line in the song, you're tattooed on me,

10:28 Speaker 14: you'll never leave because she's always she's oh so she

10:31 Speaker 14: never got to see me play a show. So yeah,

10:34 Speaker 14: now she gets to see every show.

10:35 Speaker 2: Right right?

10:36 Speaker 9: Yeah?

10:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotcha. I gotcha. Well that's uh, that's amazing.

10:41 Speaker 2: So where did you record this because and we were

10:43 Speaker 2: talking earlier about your producer. Yeah, you have a producer

10:46 Speaker 2: you work with.

10:46 Speaker 14: Yep, Charlie Brusso. He is the owner of Woodshot Productions

10:51 Speaker 14: over in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Okay, and I started working

10:53 Speaker 14: with him about two and a half years ago. But

10:57 Speaker 14: how long I've been working on the CP Yeah, yeah,

11:01 Speaker 14: and you know I went in there. He's he was great.

11:04 Speaker 14: I told him, hey, I want to learn everything I can.

11:06 Speaker 14: Is the first time I'm doing this, you know, teach

11:10 Speaker 14: me everything you know, And he just worked with me.

11:12 Speaker 14: He was very easy going, going through the motions and

11:16 Speaker 14: teaching me how to you know, keep a click track

11:19 Speaker 14: and all those fun things. But yeah, he's he's a

11:23 Speaker 14: great He is a great guy. He has an amazing studio.

11:26 Speaker 14: All the equipment there is absolutely professional and yet standing.

11:30 Speaker 2: Yeah, how how did you how did you decide to

11:32 Speaker 2: work with him? Because you've got so many options as

11:35 Speaker 2: so many So he.

11:36 Speaker 14: Was recommended by a couple close friends of mine and

11:39 Speaker 14: the family. He's done some work with a few of

11:42 Speaker 14: my friends like Lee Richard's and a few other people

11:46 Speaker 14: that I know, Okay, mostly friends of the family though,

11:48 Speaker 14: Okay told me, hey, you should work with him. He's great.

11:51 Speaker 14: I went in there, recorded towards the son. He goes, hey,

11:53 Speaker 14: you should throw an EP together. He goes, you have

11:56 Speaker 14: what it takes for it. Yeah yeah, okay, he goes

11:58 Speaker 14: come back with like five more songs if you can.

12:00 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yep, fantastic. So what I mean in terms

12:04 Speaker 2: of time, how long did it take to do to

12:07 Speaker 2: record those five songs?

12:08 Speaker 14: So the record all five of those songs, I mean,

12:11 Speaker 14: I guess six total, but yeah, the six songs.

12:13 Speaker 2: I'm not a math.

12:15 Speaker 14: I'm a full time musician, as you guys know. So

12:18 Speaker 14: last year, this past year, I did over one hundred

12:21 Speaker 14: and eighty nine shows. Oh my god, over New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Tonya,

12:25 Speaker 14: all over the place.

12:26 Speaker 2: Good.

12:27 Speaker 14: So it took some time. Yeah, yeah, it took some time.

12:30 Speaker 14: It was about two and a half years that I've

12:32 Speaker 14: been working on this EP, okay, and it started out

12:35 Speaker 14: with Towards the Sun.

12:36 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well that's so. Is that the first single officially.

12:40 Speaker 14: Or that is the first single officially Towards the Sun?

12:42 Speaker 2: Well we should play that? What uh what do you

12:44 Speaker 2: want us to know about this before we give it

12:46 Speaker 2: a spend?

12:46 Speaker 14: So towards the Sun basically, I got this idea in

12:49 Speaker 14: my head. I've had it for many many years now

12:51 Speaker 14: and just never knew how to put into words. But

12:53 Speaker 14: it's always about It's about you know, having one eye

12:55 Speaker 14: towards the sun. No matter where you are in your life,

12:57 Speaker 14: whether you're here there, hi low doing great, no matter

13:02 Speaker 14: where you are, you're always looking for something to better

13:05 Speaker 14: yourself and looking for you know, better change, right.

13:09 Speaker 2: Right, No, that's good. It's a certainly a positive message.

13:13 Speaker 2: So has this been played anywhere on the radio.

13:15 Speaker 14: On ninety point five?

13:17 Speaker 2: That's what?

13:18 Speaker 14: This is the one that got debut?

13:19 Speaker 2: Gotcha? Gotcha? But is this the same recording or is

13:22 Speaker 2: this a new recording?

13:23 Speaker 14: The this is the newest recording.

13:24 Speaker 2: This is the newest Okay, so it's a different version

13:26 Speaker 2: than the original.

13:27 Speaker 14: Yeah, it's pretty much the same though, just better better quality.

13:30 Speaker 2: This sounds better. Yeah, very cool, very cool. All right,

13:32 Speaker 2: let's give this a spin. This is Towards the Sun.

13:35 Speaker 2: This is the first single from from the acoustic EP

13:39 Speaker 2: uh one Eye Well, one Eye towards the Sun is

13:43 Speaker 2: I of the of the EP. But Towards the Sun

13:46 Speaker 2: is the first single, all right from Stephen de Cure.

13:48 Speaker 2: Here it is.

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14:24 Speaker 15: When we talk for our zame oven else and no

14:35 Speaker 15: lose docs trasy you me.

14:44 Speaker 4: Talking about these things we felt.

14:54 Speaker 12: Sitting on the arcadechin floor.

15:04 Speaker 3: Shiver, ran a snack from a cool glass job.

15:14 Speaker 12: Because I got out blow So I just son, because.

15:24 Speaker 16: I got faught some fun.

15:48 Speaker 4: In their wee time that we fall.

15:58 Speaker 15: And now sure I had.

16:02 Speaker 4: You God, it's sold those live street to my face,

16:18 Speaker 4: not after night, the slap in the face.

16:28 Speaker 11: And now we stand mumble you in your place, I said.

16:39 Speaker 9: Heaven Lord, the song and pay.

16:48 Speaker 12: Because I got one out of the roomer songs the Sun,

16:58 Speaker 12: because I got out oh bro awesome fun.

17:08 Speaker 2: Because I got one old bar.

17:12 Speaker 12: Decern, because I got how old son who?

17:47 Speaker 17: Because I don't wanna old.

17:51 Speaker 12: Son, because I got old.

18:01 Speaker 2: Awesome far.

18:11 Speaker 9: Sun Kazaga open songs.

18:21 Speaker 2: A song all right, that is towards the Sun. That

18:28 Speaker 2: is Stephen de Cure from his brand new acoustic EP,

18:31 Speaker 2: one Eye Towards the Sun, and that is of course

18:35 Speaker 2: the first single and a different version of that had

18:37 Speaker 2: played on The River ninety two point five, which again

18:41 Speaker 2: that's a that's a big feather in your caps. Congratulations

18:43 Speaker 2: on that.

18:43 Speaker 14: Thank you very much.

18:44 Speaker 2: Absolutely so, you're just selling us off air that you

18:47 Speaker 2: are working on a full length.

18:48 Speaker 14: I am working on a full length album right now. Okay,

18:51 Speaker 14: I had not set of recording it. But I do

18:53 Speaker 14: have about six or seven songs that are just about

18:56 Speaker 14: fully done and ready to go. Yeah, ready to get recorded.

18:59 Speaker 2: So do you plan to work at the same studio?

19:02 Speaker 2: I am.

19:03 Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm on the fence a little bit. I'd like

19:06 Speaker 14: to explore my options too. Yeah, and I was also

19:09 Speaker 14: looking at a new studio in Milford called dream Track Studio. Okay,

19:12 Speaker 14: and I have a meeting that I'm supposed to set

19:15 Speaker 14: up with them within a month or two. Okay, talk

19:17 Speaker 14: about possibly doing a recording session there, maybe staying there

19:20 Speaker 14: for a month in their apartment and just oh no kidding,

19:23 Speaker 14: writing and recording.

19:24 Speaker 2: In Milford, in Milford, New Hampshire. So I can't remember

19:28 Speaker 2: who we've talked about this with and who we haven't,

19:30 Speaker 2: but it's so weird to me in a good way.

19:33 Speaker 2: It's it's a cool thing that Milford for for those

19:36 Speaker 2: you know, because obviously we have a lot of listeners

19:39 Speaker 2: in the area, but we also have listeners online from

19:41 Speaker 2: all over the place. So for people who don't know,

19:43 Speaker 2: Milford is a relatively small town.

19:45 Speaker 14: It is very small, not a city.

19:46 Speaker 2: It's this little town, but I feel like it's it's

19:49 Speaker 2: almost like the epicenter of the music scene in New

19:54 Speaker 2: Hampshire because Milford comes up in so many conversations, this

19:58 Speaker 2: little town, but apparently there's a lot that goes on

20:02 Speaker 2: in Milford in terms of music.

20:03 Speaker 14: I got my start in Milford.

20:05 Speaker 2: It's so weird and like, who would even expect that

20:09 Speaker 2: anyone would ever say that I got my start in Milford. Yeah,

20:12 Speaker 2: this little town in New Hampshire, but it's got this

20:15 Speaker 2: vibrant music scene.

20:16 Speaker 14: And that's all thanks to Brad Bossy And do you

20:19 Speaker 14: remember Brad Boston has to be a big part of

20:21 Speaker 14: the music scene in Milford as well, and he used

20:23 Speaker 14: to do the open mic, so I'd go there. He

20:25 Speaker 14: was like, hey, you could do this for three hours. Man,

20:27 Speaker 14: He goes, you can make some money doing this. Yeah,

20:29 Speaker 14: all right, it sounds good.

20:30 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. So yeah, it's quite remarkable. I mean there's

20:35 Speaker 2: so many guests we have, Like we'll have guests come

20:37 Speaker 2: on the show who are like, you know, I'll ask him,

20:39 Speaker 2: do you have any shows this weekend? Do you want

20:41 Speaker 2: to plug? Oh yeah, we're playing in.

20:42 Speaker 14: Milford Stonecutters, Yeah yeah, Station one on one.

20:46 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, next guest comes in next hour. Oh yeah,

20:49 Speaker 2: we're playing in Milfordford. You might be recording in Milford.

20:55 Speaker 2: It's so weird, but it's cool, it's awesome. But it's like,

20:59 Speaker 2: you know, would have ever gets thought? Yeah, but uh yeah,

21:04 Speaker 2: so you're you're so you're kind of weighing your options.

21:06 Speaker 14: Yeah, way, my options right now. I love where I'm at,

21:08 Speaker 14: where I'm recording right now. It's so easy going. Charlie

21:11 Speaker 14: Brusso is an incredible dude. He's he's actually worked with

21:14 Speaker 14: run DMC and Godsmack in the past, kidding, yep, so

21:18 Speaker 14: he has some some stature under his belt. So yeah,

21:22 Speaker 14: he does a really good job.

21:23 Speaker 2: And for people who don't know, Godsmack is originally from

21:26 Speaker 2: or at least Sully is originally from tow him. Sure

21:27 Speaker 2: he is, so that's probably how how they met. But

21:30 Speaker 2: he worked with run DMC.

21:32 Speaker 14: Yes, he did.

21:33 Speaker 2: That's really cool.

21:33 Speaker 14: Ye and his mom and dad's basement when he had

21:35 Speaker 14: the studio in his mom and dad's basement at first.

21:38 Speaker 2: No kidding, did he did he explain how that came about?

21:42 Speaker 2: Because that's fast.

21:43 Speaker 14: I don't know the full story. I just know that

21:46 Speaker 14: he's worked with both of them.

21:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's wild, yep, very cool, very cool. So

21:53 Speaker 2: the songs that you're so you've got you said, you've

21:55 Speaker 2: got six or seven ready to go, ready to go,

21:57 Speaker 2: just haven't started recording.

21:58 Speaker 14: Haven't started recording it. Like I said, I've been trying

22:00 Speaker 14: to work on getting this first EP out. Yeah, take

22:04 Speaker 14: a little creative break for myself. You know, I booked,

22:07 Speaker 14: you know, a bunch of shows I play. Like I said,

22:10 Speaker 14: I did one hundred and eighty nine shows last summer, yeah,

22:12 Speaker 14: or last year, I should say. And it's it's a

22:16 Speaker 14: never ending grind.

22:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're busy. You're busy. When you when did you start?

22:21 Speaker 2: How long have you been doing this?

22:23 Speaker 14: I started so as I told you, I was doing

22:25 Speaker 14: the open Mics with Brad Boston. Yeah, put at the

22:27 Speaker 14: pasta off that was probably back in twenty sixteen. And

22:31 Speaker 14: then I started. I did like an audition with Paul

22:33 Speaker 14: Costley at the open Mics at the Wild Rover when

22:36 Speaker 14: he was doing them there. Now he does them at

22:37 Speaker 14: the Casey's Ripshack in Manchester, Okay every Tuesday, and so

22:42 Speaker 14: I did a little audition there with him. Didn't get

22:44 Speaker 14: through right away, and then the next year after Brad

22:47 Speaker 14: he said, he goes Paul, you got to get him in. Yeah,

22:49 Speaker 14: he's good enough, get him in. So and I've been

22:50 Speaker 14: doing it since like twenty seventeen, okay, okay, yep, and

22:53 Speaker 14: then COVID hit I stopped doing it obviously, and then

22:57 Speaker 14: a couple of years ago when I moved out my

23:01 Speaker 14: when I moved back into with my parents, I started

23:04 Speaker 14: doing it full time again. And yeah, I've been doing

23:05 Speaker 14: it ever since.

23:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, outstanding, outstanding. So the grand scheme of things not

23:10 Speaker 2: that long for when when you consider like how successful

23:13 Speaker 2: you are with it, you know, be able to because

23:14 Speaker 2: not everyone can do it full time. No, So that's great. No,

23:17 Speaker 2: that's great. You're playing a lot. Yep.

23:19 Speaker 14: Tonight I'll be at The Spice in Nashua, okay, five

23:21 Speaker 14: thirty to eight thirty Okay, So I'll be playing there tonight.

23:24 Speaker 14: So if you guys want to come check it out.

23:26 Speaker 2: Check it out. Outstanding outstanding. Is that a new place

23:29 Speaker 2: I'm not.

23:29 Speaker 14: Familiar it is. It's actually so the Sun Bar and

23:33 Speaker 14: Grill in Milford, New Hampshire as well. So they're actually

23:35 Speaker 14: owned by the same people, oh as the Spice and

23:38 Speaker 14: I played there as well.

23:39 Speaker 2: Oh okay, ye, outstanding the news. I assume you're playing

23:44 Speaker 2: out so the songs that you're going to be recording,

23:46 Speaker 2: I assume you're also you're already.

23:47 Speaker 14: Playing I'm already playing them out. Yeah, I play them

23:49 Speaker 14: out once in a while.

23:50 Speaker 2: Yep. I'm always curious about that because it's funny. So

23:53 Speaker 2: some guests we have on the show, they won't play

23:56 Speaker 2: anything live. I mean, I'm sorry, Well, yeah, they won't

23:59 Speaker 2: play anything live until recorded it recorded it. I've run

24:01 Speaker 2: into that. I think that was more of a band thing.

24:03 Speaker 2: I've run into that more with bands than I think

24:05 Speaker 2: solo acoustic artists.

24:06 Speaker 14: But I like to do it to give it a try.

24:08 Speaker 14: I want to get the crowd's reaction, you know what

24:10 Speaker 14: I mean. And you're not always going to get the

24:12 Speaker 14: same reaction every time obviously, just like even if you

24:15 Speaker 14: were to play a cover song, you're not going to

24:16 Speaker 14: get the same reaction out of people.

24:17 Speaker 2: Right If people.

24:18 Speaker 14: Are liking it, that's half a battle.

24:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. So absolutely, Yeah, it's

24:23 Speaker 2: kind of like a focus group in a way.

24:24 Speaker 14: Yeah, helps me helps me be able to, you know,

24:26 Speaker 14: play it out before people even know what it is,

24:28 Speaker 14: you know what I mean, and then when people actually

24:30 Speaker 14: know what it is and it catches on. Now, I've

24:32 Speaker 14: already been playing it for years, and right I have

24:35 Speaker 14: it fully mastered.

24:36 Speaker 2: Right, right, exact exactly. I'm curious. I'd probably asked you

24:40 Speaker 2: this last time, but I'm curious about your vocal style.

24:43 Speaker 2: You've got to You've got a pretty distinctive voice.

24:45 Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I don't do voice lessons or anything

24:48 Speaker 14: like that. I I kind of just like taught myself

24:51 Speaker 14: everything I know about it and just kind of I

24:54 Speaker 14: kind of wing everything, honest, I wing it, and I

24:57 Speaker 14: try to make it sound as good as possible.

24:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, because especially on that song, Madeline, it's like, you know,

25:02 Speaker 2: I'm listening to it, I'm trying to think, I'm trying

25:04 Speaker 2: to think of who you remind me of, but I

25:06 Speaker 2: can't because you don't necessarily remind me of anyone.

25:08 Speaker 14: You've got your own style. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Yeah,

25:12 Speaker 14: I don't want to be anybody else but me.

25:14 Speaker 2: Well, is there anyone who's a big influence on you vocally?

25:17 Speaker 14: Definitely Benson, Boonee, Noble Cohn obviously huge influence on me,

25:22 Speaker 14: Steely Dan, Donald Fagan always loved his vocals. Oh yeah,

25:26 Speaker 14: and then obviously Simon and Garfunkle.

25:30 Speaker 2: All Right, so, speaking of Noah Khan, tell us what

25:32 Speaker 2: you were tell us about this, you were saying, so

25:35 Speaker 2: we're telling Jenny and I have something to off air.

25:36 Speaker 2: So it's really interesting.

25:38 Speaker 14: My girlfriend and I were watching the new Noble Khan

25:40 Speaker 14: documentary the other night on Netflix. Yeah, there's an enormous

25:44 Speaker 14: amount of similarities between the two of us, and yeah,

25:47 Speaker 14: every five minutes she look at me and she's like,

25:48 Speaker 14: oh my god, Oh my god, I can't believe how

25:50 Speaker 14: much do you guys have in common? And then towards

25:52 Speaker 14: the end of the show, like back in the day,

25:56 Speaker 14: my babysitter used to ask me all the time, Steven,

25:58 Speaker 14: what do you want to be when you grow up?

25:59 Speaker 14: And I always just tell her I want to be

26:00 Speaker 14: a fire truck yeah, and so on. At like the

26:03 Speaker 14: end of the show that we were watching, he his

26:07 Speaker 14: mom said, you know, we would always ask him what

26:09 Speaker 14: he wanted to be when he grew up, and he

26:10 Speaker 14: always used to say a fire truck man. And my

26:13 Speaker 14: girlfriend jumped up, She's like, this is really creepy. Now

26:16 Speaker 14: it was really creepy, but it was funny though. Yeah, Yeah,

26:20 Speaker 14: we have a lot of comment apparently, like like what else,

26:22 Speaker 14: like what his writing style like how he you know,

26:26 Speaker 14: I get my head a lot about like, you know,

26:28 Speaker 14: perfectionist kind of things like we were talking about off air. Yeah,

26:31 Speaker 14: you know, making sure that I'm doing everything right and

26:34 Speaker 14: it sounds correctly how I wanted to, and you know,

26:36 Speaker 14: I'm very particular about it.

26:38 Speaker 2: Yeah.

26:38 Speaker 14: Those and he and he gets in his head about

26:40 Speaker 14: about himself and while he's writing creativity you know, just

26:44 Speaker 14: about anything topics or having trouble writing.

26:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very interesting. Uh, well, we should play another

26:50 Speaker 2: track from the EP. Absolutely, what would you I'll let

26:53 Speaker 2: you pick what would uh? What would you like to

26:55 Speaker 2: play next? What's too?

26:56 Speaker 14: Chasing my dream?

26:58 Speaker 2: Chasing my dream? Okay? Anything we should know about this

27:00 Speaker 2: before we play it. All.

27:01 Speaker 14: This song is all about finding my love for music again.

27:05 Speaker 14: And once I started actually writing my own music. This

27:08 Speaker 14: is I knew once I recorded Towards the Sun, I go,

27:11 Speaker 14: I got one taste. Now I'm ready to go. Yeah,

27:14 Speaker 14: let's chase the dream.

27:15 Speaker 2: All right, let's give this a spend. Chasing the dream

27:18 Speaker 2: here and this is Stephen de Cure. Hang on everybody's

27:35 Speaker 2: technical difficulty. It's the the dance mix.

27:39 Speaker 14: Can you even to send you the other one?

27:41 Speaker 13: No?

27:41 Speaker 2: I don't know how that. No, no, no, it's a problem.

27:43 Speaker 2: It's a problem here. Okay, I think I can.

27:46 Speaker 14: I was like, that's not right.

27:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think so either. I was uh quite

27:52 Speaker 2: puzzled myself there for a moment. Let's see, I'm just

27:55 Speaker 2: sudjusting this. I don't know how that happened. I honestly don't.

27:59 Speaker 2: H Yeah, that doesn't usually occur. Okay, think I've tell

28:14 Speaker 2: me if this sounds right to you, songs me, okay,

28:19 Speaker 2: let's start that over here. It is. This is chasing

28:22 Speaker 2: the dream Stephen de Cure, No, I won't play what

28:26 Speaker 2: is going on here? There we go.

28:46 Speaker 3: I'm trying to write some songs of mean man. There's

28:51 Speaker 3: someone going with don being then spins they're out to

28:57 Speaker 3: see chasing my dream of go to feeding new things

29:05 Speaker 3: on the road, see the fighting and runny eyes, the

29:13 Speaker 3: hunger that's inside. Just some days made me realize all

29:31 Speaker 3: this stuff, scamming real man, stay in focused onbule, even

29:39 Speaker 3: wondering where this journeys leading, chasing my dream over to

29:45 Speaker 3: feed and new things on the road, see the flyre

29:54 Speaker 3: and my eyes, the hunger that's inside. Just some days

30:03 Speaker 3: mad me reiz at least you went through it.

30:24 Speaker 9: You try and.

30:27 Speaker 3: Regrets of painful Let it rise, A love of music

30:33 Speaker 3: sets for free. Got one out of a dorches in

30:37 Speaker 3: my dream, New things.

30:41 Speaker 2: On the rise.

30:44 Speaker 3: See the fire and my eyes, the hunger that's inside

30:53 Speaker 3: just some days mad me reade.

31:14 Speaker 2: That is chasing my dream. That is Stephen de Cure

31:17 Speaker 2: from the the new Acoustic k P one I Towards

31:21 Speaker 2: the Sun And we have Stephen de Cure with us

31:23 Speaker 2: live in the studio. And yeah, that's a great song.

31:26 Speaker 14: You very much.

31:26 Speaker 2: You were telling us about the your league guitar player

31:30 Speaker 2: on the album, My.

31:30 Speaker 14: Lead guitar player, Thith McGinnis. He does an incredible job.

31:34 Speaker 14: This man is a true professional. I can't say enough

31:37 Speaker 14: great things about him. He is the owner of Mojo's Music. Okay,

31:42 Speaker 14: I don't know if you've ever heard of Jo's. Absolutely,

31:44 Speaker 14: Oh he runs Majo's Music. He does a bunch of

31:46 Speaker 14: stuff with like the School of Rock there.

31:48 Speaker 2: Oh excellent, yeah, excellent. Now how did you come to

31:51 Speaker 2: work with him? How did that happen?

31:52 Speaker 14: He's the family friend of ours as well.

31:54 Speaker 2: Oh good, yeah, I got I got a lot of.

31:57 Speaker 14: Good family friends that are in the business.

31:59 Speaker 2: And yeah, now why is that? Are your parents' musicians?

32:02 Speaker 14: Also? No, my mom and dad just have a lot

32:04 Speaker 14: of good close friends. Oh okay, yeah, it's yeah, like

32:07 Speaker 14: growing up, these people have known me my whole life

32:11 Speaker 14: and I'm still friends with them to this day, and

32:12 Speaker 14: they've just become my friends.

32:14 Speaker 2: You know. Oh that's great. That's that's really good. That's

32:17 Speaker 2: really good. And then so now how many of the

32:20 Speaker 2: songs as Jeff planned too? Too? Okay, okay, yeah, it's

32:24 Speaker 2: it's interesting, you know, because obviously you want to on

32:29 Speaker 2: songs like this, you want to have somebody who who

32:32 Speaker 2: can do a solo that really adds to it without

32:35 Speaker 2: doing too much much.

32:37 Speaker 14: Yeah.

32:37 Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's a conversation you guys

32:39 Speaker 2: had or if he just he probably knew it instinctively.

32:41 Speaker 14: So like when I say, this man is such a professional.

32:44 Speaker 14: He I sent him Chase my dream. Yeah, he didn't

32:47 Speaker 14: even do it in the studio. He sent he recorded

32:49 Speaker 14: it himself, sent it to me, I sent it to Charlie. Yeah,

32:52 Speaker 14: and he put it all together and he just did

32:55 Speaker 14: it like on the spot. And then we went into

32:58 Speaker 14: the studio and did everybody's changing together there. Yeah, and

33:01 Speaker 14: he laid the soul down in one take.

33:04 Speaker 2: It was I was.

33:05 Speaker 14: He was like, how was that? And I was like

33:06 Speaker 14: that's it? Yeah, I go that's perfect right, It don't

33:09 Speaker 14: change anything.

33:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's fantastic. Yeah.

33:12 Speaker 14: He knew exactly where to go with it, like professional.

33:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, who else plays on the album? Anybody else?

33:18 Speaker 17: Are?

33:18 Speaker 15: So?

33:19 Speaker 14: The only other person that I have on the album

33:21 Speaker 14: is Artie Kenyan. He does the bass for me in

33:24 Speaker 14: Madeline Okay yep, and then it's just me that does

33:27 Speaker 14: all the other instruments in the singing.

33:30 Speaker 2: Okay, now why did you have him in for Madeline

33:33 Speaker 2: for the bass part?

33:34 Speaker 14: I could not get a bassline to save my life.

33:36 Speaker 2: No, I was.

33:38 Speaker 14: I was spending hours and hours trying to figure out

33:40 Speaker 14: a bassline.

33:40 Speaker 2: I had.

33:41 Speaker 14: Something wasn't going and I was just like, you know what,

33:44 Speaker 14: let me just have somebody come in and do it

33:45 Speaker 14: for me. Yeah, you know what I mean, make my

33:47 Speaker 14: life a little easier. It was during the summertime when

33:49 Speaker 14: things were very hectic for me.

33:51 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt.

33:52 Speaker 14: No, I really didn't have the time to do it.

33:54 Speaker 2: Yeah. Was he able to come up with something pretty

33:55 Speaker 2: quick that? Yep?

33:56 Speaker 14: Yeah, yep, he came He just kind of you know,

33:58 Speaker 14: filled it in for me, yeah, you know, even it out.

34:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't oh excellent. Was of these songs, what

34:04 Speaker 2: was the most challenging one too? Maybe it was Madeline

34:07 Speaker 2: because of the base part. I don't know. Was there

34:09 Speaker 2: one that was more challenging than the others.

34:11 Speaker 14: I would have to say Madeline was probably the most challenging.

34:15 Speaker 14: That and I mean they were all pretty challenging, really you.

34:23 Speaker 14: I mean, it was my first time ever recording in

34:25 Speaker 14: a studio and doing this, so yeah, I was learning

34:28 Speaker 14: as I was going. Yeah, you know what I mean.

34:29 Speaker 2: So what was the most challenging aspect of it for you?

34:34 Speaker 14: Trying to make sure I got the vocals right every time?

34:37 Speaker 14: Like like I'd always like get in my head and

34:39 Speaker 14: be like, can we do another take? Can we do

34:41 Speaker 14: another take? He's like, stop asking me. He's like, we

34:43 Speaker 14: can always do another take, right, You're paying for it.

34:46 Speaker 14: He's like I was like, okay, right, So that was

34:48 Speaker 14: just me being shy, right right, But yeah, I mean

34:52 Speaker 14: that was pretty much the hardest thing. And then following

34:53 Speaker 14: like a click track, you know what I mean, Yeah,

34:55 Speaker 14: getting comfortable with that. But now I'm pretty much good

34:58 Speaker 14: with that.

34:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I mean, did you feel any pressure in

35:02 Speaker 2: terms of because obviously you're not just singing, you know,

35:04 Speaker 2: you're playing a lot.

35:05 Speaker 14: Yeah, I would, I trust me. I had to do multiple,

35:09 Speaker 14: multiple takes on the guitar, so he would have me

35:12 Speaker 14: play and sing it first. Then he would have me do, hey,

35:15 Speaker 14: let's do two takes of just you playing it and

35:19 Speaker 14: not singing. Okay, Then I had to you know, my brain,

35:22 Speaker 14: don't sing? Don't sing?

35:25 Speaker 2: That is that difficult? It is when you're not used

35:28 Speaker 2: to that.

35:29 Speaker 14: It is because in some ways, like when you're in

35:31 Speaker 14: your flow, like you know what I mean, when you're

35:33 Speaker 14: in your zone and you're singing and you're you got

35:35 Speaker 14: the emotion going with it, and then when you're not,

35:37 Speaker 14: and it's like, okay, now I'm just like trying to

35:39 Speaker 14: keep on time with it, right and so it's like

35:41 Speaker 14: I don't have that same emotion going into it with

35:44 Speaker 14: the right hand.

35:44 Speaker 2: What about when when do you record the vocals? Are

35:47 Speaker 2: you just vocals?

35:48 Speaker 14: I just have it playing in my in my headset

35:51 Speaker 14: the track, and then I just sing the song over it.

35:53 Speaker 2: So is that weird?

35:54 Speaker 14: That's actually easier, that's easier. That's easier. I'm way more

35:58 Speaker 14: comfortable doing it that way. Okay, it's the guitar playing

36:01 Speaker 14: and doing the double tracks that took me a little bit.

36:03 Speaker 2: No, that makes sense. That makes sense. And then so

36:06 Speaker 2: do you have any kind of it's probably too early

36:09 Speaker 2: to know, like do you have any kind of a

36:11 Speaker 2: long term idea of when the full.

36:13 Speaker 14: Album might be I'd say a couple of years, A

36:16 Speaker 14: couple of years, I'd say at least two years, because because.

36:18 Speaker 2: This took a while just to do this.

36:20 Speaker 14: Yeah, it took a while, playing, a lot of money,

36:22 Speaker 14: took a lot of money, yeah, a lot of you know, organizing,

36:27 Speaker 14: and you know, because I was I wrote towards the Sun,

36:30 Speaker 14: I didn't have any other songs, yeah, and he was like,

36:33 Speaker 14: see what you can do, So and then I had

36:35 Speaker 14: to get to work. My dad and I started working

36:39 Speaker 14: on writing songs together. Yeah, and he's been a big

36:41 Speaker 14: help with me on that good. So he helps me

36:43 Speaker 14: a lot with like some of my lyrics and things

36:45 Speaker 14: like that, and then I do all the music, so

36:48 Speaker 14: he'll help me with some of the lines and like

36:50 Speaker 14: just kind of trying to get it to the direction

36:52 Speaker 14: of like where I want to take it. Yeah, the

36:54 Speaker 14: message that I want to deliver to people.

36:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, outstanding. Ye will the when you do the album,

37:00 Speaker 2: will these songs be included on the full album or

37:03 Speaker 2: will the full album be.

37:04 Speaker 14: The full album is going to be completely different songs?

37:07 Speaker 14: Oh okay, extullent, completely different songs, excellent.

37:09 Speaker 5: Yeah.

37:10 Speaker 2: Will it be mostly acoustic like the EP or do.

37:13 Speaker 14: You I'm not sure yet. I'd like to get a

37:16 Speaker 14: band together. Oh okay, that's my next thing. I'd like

37:19 Speaker 14: to get a band together so I can hopefully go

37:21 Speaker 14: play these these albums out live actually, yeah, for people

37:25 Speaker 14: to actually hear and not just hear acoustically.

37:28 Speaker 2: Right now, when you play live, is it always just

37:30 Speaker 2: it just always just me and the guitar?

37:31 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah yeah, And I do pretty well with these ones,

37:34 Speaker 14: you know, off the album, so sure, sure yeah.

37:37 Speaker 2: They lend itself to that. Yeah, but yeah, it makes sense.

37:39 Speaker 2: So when you record the album, you might you might

37:41 Speaker 2: have things that you want to be able to play

37:43 Speaker 2: with a full band.

37:44 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, and get some other ideas and you know,

37:47 Speaker 14: connect with some other people. Have you ever played in

37:50 Speaker 14: a band? No, no, never played in a band. Ever

37:52 Speaker 14: played in a band. I have always been the one

37:54 Speaker 14: man band.

37:55 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it can be. It can be hard.

37:58 Speaker 2: I mean, the hardest thing I think is just the

38:00 Speaker 2: logistics of it. You know, when you when you you know,

38:02 Speaker 2: when you're trying to book shows and you got to.

38:04 Speaker 14: The comfortability with it, you got to be you know, yep,

38:07 Speaker 14: the communication. You know, everybody's gonna be in the same

38:09 Speaker 14: page like nowadays, Like yeah, like the David Crole says,

38:12 Speaker 14: he's like, go get some friends and go start a

38:15 Speaker 14: garage band, right, you know what I mean? Right, and

38:17 Speaker 14: like make sure that you guys do it. You guys

38:19 Speaker 14: want to actually do it right. I'm not going to

38:21 Speaker 14: do it unless you actually want.

38:22 Speaker 2: To do it right, exactly. Yeah. I mean as far

38:24 Speaker 2: as finding people to play with, you know, there's so

38:26 Speaker 2: much as you know, there's so much incredible talent around.

38:29 Speaker 14: Absolutely absolutely, and yeah, like I said, I'm looking for

38:31 Speaker 14: people that are that want to do it and be

38:35 Speaker 14: professional about it. Yeah, actually go somewhere with it.

38:37 Speaker 8: You know.

38:37 Speaker 2: The hardest thing will be the finding a drummer. Yeah,

38:41 Speaker 2: And that comes up all the time on the show,

38:42 Speaker 2: like every every drummer, it's it's sort of a running joke,

38:45 Speaker 2: but it's not even really a joke, Like every drummer

38:47 Speaker 2: is in ten bands. You know, and my theory has

38:49 Speaker 2: always been, and regular listeners hear me say it all

38:52 Speaker 2: the time. But if you uh, you know, when you're

38:54 Speaker 2: growing up and you first develop an interest in playing

38:56 Speaker 2: an instrument, if you approach your parents and you say

38:59 Speaker 2: I want to play drum, that's you know that and

39:01 Speaker 2: maybe the tuba or the two things they are gonna

39:03 Speaker 2: actively try to talk you out of right away.

39:05 Speaker 14: It's funny because the first thing, the first thing I

39:07 Speaker 14: did in school was played the snare drum. Oh no kidding, Yeah,

39:10 Speaker 14: I wanted to play drums growing up before ye were

39:13 Speaker 14: playing guitar.

39:13 Speaker 2: Me too. I had a snare drum when I was

39:15 Speaker 2: a kid. I was banging on yeah, before I ever

39:16 Speaker 2: picked the guitar and yep, yep, totally yeah, yeah yeah,

39:21 Speaker 2: So that's that's my theory about why that is. But yeah,

39:24 Speaker 2: bass players can be a little hard to find, but

39:26 Speaker 2: drummers are very you know, to find one who's available

39:29 Speaker 2: when you need them, that's that's the that's the difficult

39:32 Speaker 2: part of that. No, no, but I think that's great.

39:34 Speaker 2: We should play another track from the EP. What do

39:36 Speaker 2: you want to play? News?

39:38 Speaker 14: Let's do everybody's changing Since we were just talking about

39:42 Speaker 14: Jeff McGinnis and his solos.

39:43 Speaker 2: Ah, yes, yes, everybody's changing. And if you are just

39:46 Speaker 2: joining us, of course we have Stephen to cure here

39:48 Speaker 2: with us, live in studio and we're talking and playing

39:51 Speaker 2: some songs. From one eye towards the sun is great

39:53 Speaker 2: acoustic ep and here it is. Everybody's changing. Sit in

40:25 Speaker 2: her hair.

40:27 Speaker 17: In the chair thing again, won the wear hair. This

40:41 Speaker 17: world school socks of wool, horror, all low round, watch.

41:03 Speaker 3: These buildings, grumble to do.

41:08 Speaker 7: Graha, saverybo.

41:17 Speaker 2: These change the true the mountain, smile and face. Be

41:28 Speaker 2: An's world is change.

41:33 Speaker 3: The way we waity the witty week come wrong.

41:53 Speaker 2: See this he.

41:56 Speaker 9: Spreading through the crowd.

42:05 Speaker 17: Affording boots.

42:09 Speaker 2: Are a lot.

42:11 Speaker 18: No two parties, says storm, designed to divine.

42:31 Speaker 3: Friends and family.

42:34 Speaker 7: For you on Shi, Everybody's change.

42:50 Speaker 3: Yourful londs and small empies.

42:56 Speaker 2: Me at the world is change jail.

43:02 Speaker 16: Whenny rain wedding rain, wedding.

43:06 Speaker 12: Rain were go.

43:59 Speaker 3: Ballocks shuns holding all those strings. We'll just bob bits

44:14 Speaker 3: in this bullet go ring.

44:24 Speaker 9: Lead with your hall heart loves wear it all big games.

44:36 Speaker 4: Let's stand together.

44:40 Speaker 9: And learn to love fock game.

44:46 Speaker 2: That is everybody's changing and that is a Stephen de

44:50 Speaker 2: Cure and he is with us in studio and we're

44:52 Speaker 2: playing some songs from his new EP, one Eye Towards

44:56 Speaker 2: the Sun, and uh yeah, that's that's really good. I

44:59 Speaker 2: love what's that last line, Let's.

45:02 Speaker 14: Let's stand together, Let's learn to love again?

45:04 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So what's the significance of that? I mean,

45:07 Speaker 2: other than the obvious?

45:08 Speaker 14: But so I mean, yeah, other than the obvious, Like,

45:12 Speaker 14: you know, everything that's going on in the world, youah,

45:14 Speaker 14: and we all just come together, right and figure this out,

45:16 Speaker 14: you know what I mean, and stop being so hateful

45:19 Speaker 14: towards each other. Yeah, what I mean, they please and

45:21 Speaker 14: thank you. Hold the door for somebody, Let somebody go

45:23 Speaker 14: when they're driving, you know what I mean, on the road,

45:25 Speaker 14: you know, yeap, just have common courtesy for people.

45:28 Speaker 2: It's not hard, exactly exactly. Yeah, very good.

45:33 Speaker 14: And uh yeah, what's it Jeff what Jeff McGinnis.

45:36 Speaker 2: Jeff McGinnis, Yeah, he was a guitar playing on that.

45:38 Speaker 14: It's just so absolutely incredible.

45:39 Speaker 2: So perfect. Tasteful would be a good word, yes, to

45:42 Speaker 2: describe it, very very tasteful. Jenny is leaving us. She's

45:46 Speaker 2: not gonna be here for the Uh. In the third hour,

45:49 Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking with Charles Richardson about WrestleMania and uh,

45:54 Speaker 2: you know, but we didn't get a chance to watch

45:55 Speaker 2: SmackDown yet, So Jenny doesn't want to hear the spoilers.

45:58 Speaker 14: Yes, I don't need I don't need that. I didn't

46:00 Speaker 14: get to watch it either. I watched it once in

46:01 Speaker 14: a while, So yeah, I look, I look forward to

46:03 Speaker 14: the to the WrestleManias. Oh yes, I've always been a

46:06 Speaker 14: fan of the kids the big weekend.

46:08 Speaker 2: They'll mess up my stories, you know. When I was

46:11 Speaker 2: a kid, my aunties will be like, don't call during

46:13 Speaker 2: my stories, you know, general hospital. But these are my stories.

46:16 Speaker 2: I don't want spoilers to mess up my stories. That's right,

46:20 Speaker 2: that's right, You'll be safe. All right, good Jenny leaves us.

46:24 Speaker 2: But yes, we are talking with with Stephen de Cure

46:27 Speaker 2: And so where are you so this weekend you've got

46:33 Speaker 2: so you've got a show for our live listeners. You've

46:34 Speaker 2: got a show later today.

46:35 Speaker 14: Yeah, later tonight the Spice in Nashville, New Hampshire. Okay,

46:39 Speaker 14: that's five thirty eight thirty okay, all right, And it's

46:42 Speaker 14: where the old KFC used to be.

46:43 Speaker 2: Oh, gotcha, gotcha? Do you have like where do you

46:48 Speaker 2: There's a lot of places to play around here obviously,

46:51 Speaker 2: but do you venture out of New Hampshire?

46:54 Speaker 8: I go.

46:54 Speaker 14: So I play all over the place in Massachusetts. I

46:57 Speaker 14: do Muddy Waters Pub, I do Brown Pub and with Thwin.

47:02 Speaker 14: I actually just got put on the as an opener

47:06 Speaker 14: for July twenty fourths. Feel the Dreams Festival. Oh very

47:10 Speaker 14: good in Sell, New Hampshire. So that'll be my first

47:12 Speaker 14: festival that I'll be playing.

47:14 Speaker 2: And then.

47:16 Speaker 14: Yeah, I play all over the place, Laconia, Massachusetts, everywhere, Yeah, everywhere.

47:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent. I'm glad you're going to be playing a

47:23 Speaker 2: festival because I always say festivals are great because not

47:26 Speaker 2: only do you obviously get in front of a crowd

47:28 Speaker 2: that you know might not otherwise know you, So there's

47:30 Speaker 2: an opportunity to really build your fan base, but also

47:33 Speaker 2: the connections that you make, the people that you make

47:35 Speaker 2: with in the industry. You know, other performers, managers, you know, promoters,

47:40 Speaker 2: everybody you know that it's such a you know it.

47:43 Speaker 2: It can't be overstated just how much of an opportunity

47:46 Speaker 2: it is to play a festival. Yeah, So I tell

47:49 Speaker 2: everybody to get on as many festivals as you can.

47:51 Speaker 14: Absolutely, Like I said, I was trying to get on

47:53 Speaker 14: there last year. They didn't have a spot for me.

47:55 Speaker 14: And then I started working with Massive Entertainment Group. Okay,

47:58 Speaker 14: they booked for like all the like the casino and

48:01 Speaker 14: all that, so I'll be playing there as well and

48:03 Speaker 14: may actually I just booked there and then so they

48:06 Speaker 14: called me and said, hey, we you're on the list

48:08 Speaker 14: and we'd like to have you for the festival.

48:10 Speaker 2: So yeah, oh that's fantastic.

48:12 Speaker 16: I was.

48:12 Speaker 14: It was really, it was really nice opportunity.

48:14 Speaker 2: Why is it? Do you know why it's called the

48:15 Speaker 2: Field of Dreams Festival.

48:17 Speaker 14: I'm honestly not sure.

48:18 Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just curious because when I when I

48:20 Speaker 2: hear Field of Dreams, I think of the movie. Yeah,

48:23 Speaker 2: and I just wonder if there's a baseball connection. Maybe

48:25 Speaker 2: it's not sure.

48:26 Speaker 14: I think it's more of like a community thing, okay,

48:28 Speaker 14: because it's like a free concert pretty much. Yeah, and

48:31 Speaker 14: they do a bunch of like community stuff in Salem

48:34 Speaker 14: with like you know, parks for the kids and stuff

48:37 Speaker 14: like that, dog parks, all kinds of stuff for the community.

48:40 Speaker 2: Oh okay, Oh that's very positive. That's good. That's good,

48:45 Speaker 2: very good. Do you know how long you're set is

48:47 Speaker 2: going to be at that?

48:47 Speaker 14: So I go on at five forty five I'm opening

48:50 Speaker 14: for wild Side, the band wild Side okay, And and

48:53 Speaker 14: then I played till six thirty, so about forty five

48:56 Speaker 14: minutes set.

48:56 Speaker 2: Oh okay, Oh that's great.

48:58 Speaker 6: Yeah.

48:58 Speaker 2: Actually at a festival, forty five minute this is a

49:00 Speaker 2: pretty good, pretty good sat of time. Yeah, that's that's

49:02 Speaker 2: really good.

49:03 Speaker 14: Good for you, Good for you, thank you.

49:05 Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite place to play? You know?

49:08 Speaker 14: So I just started playing. I actually just played there

49:10 Speaker 14: last night. It's this place called the Sweet Hill Farm

49:13 Speaker 14: and plast out in New Hampshire, Okay. And it's a

49:16 Speaker 14: farm and they do barbecue there and they you go

49:20 Speaker 14: into the farm they have obviously live music, and you

49:24 Speaker 14: sit right in the greenhouse and you eat barbecue and

49:28 Speaker 14: drink bottles of wine.

49:29 Speaker 2: Okay.

49:29 Speaker 14: It's it's amazing. It's such a unique and cool spot.

49:33 Speaker 14: It's one of my favorite spots that I've been playing.

49:35 Speaker 2: Okay so lately. Yeah, okay, yeah, is that somewhere new

49:38 Speaker 2: or is that.

49:39 Speaker 14: Yeah, that's a new place for me, and I'm not

49:41 Speaker 14: sure that it's a new spot they did just start

49:43 Speaker 14: doing live music.

49:44 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so it's new for that, gotcha. Yeah, Oh

49:48 Speaker 2: that's that's great. The nice thing about you know, being

49:52 Speaker 2: a solo act, a singer songwriter is it. You know

49:55 Speaker 2: there's so many like you'll never you'll never run out

49:57 Speaker 2: of place to play, and you'll never stop finding new opportunities.

50:01 Speaker 14: Absolutely, And you know I was telling myself too, I go.

50:04 Speaker 14: You know when I started recording the CP, I said,

50:06 Speaker 14: I can either play at bars the rest of my life.

50:09 Speaker 14: I know I can do that and do the covers.

50:11 Speaker 8: I go.

50:11 Speaker 14: But that's about as far as I'm gonna go with it. Yeah,

50:14 Speaker 14: I want to go further. Yeah, I mean I want

50:16 Speaker 14: to be on a bigger stage. I'd like to sell

50:18 Speaker 14: on an arena someday. Oh yeah, I mean, yeah, that's

50:20 Speaker 14: that's that's the goal exactly. Absolutely.

50:23 Speaker 2: Do you do covers? Do you have covers?

50:25 Speaker 14: I do a bunch of covers. Do you have Teddy Swims,

50:28 Speaker 14: Jim Croche, Simon and Garfunkle beatles? Yeah, just about everything.

50:33 Speaker 2: Do you do any obscure ones that where where people

50:36 Speaker 2: sometimes aren't sure that.

50:37 Speaker 14: Yes, Yeah, like I do, so I do few off

50:41 Speaker 14: o Donald fake and soul?

50:42 Speaker 2: Well, oh no kidding, I do.

50:44 Speaker 14: Uh, it's weather in my head? Play that one I do,

50:49 Speaker 14: Sweet Shoty Blue Eyes, Yeah, I do. Going to California

50:54 Speaker 14: by Led Zeppelin. You know a lot of like stuff

50:56 Speaker 14: that people really wouldn't attempt.

50:58 Speaker 2: To play out live.

50:59 Speaker 14: Yeah, technically all the time, you know what I mean.

51:01 Speaker 14: But yeah, I try to challenge myself with it when

51:03 Speaker 14: you do that.

51:04 Speaker 2: Does anyone ever come up to you after a show

51:05 Speaker 2: and they don't, like they have no idea to cover

51:07 Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, I really like that song I've had.

51:09 Speaker 14: I've had a lot of people like so when I

51:12 Speaker 14: play at Tellvi's and Epping, Yeah, they put me through

51:15 Speaker 14: like the speakers, like just right through the house music. Okay, right,

51:18 Speaker 14: so people will be in the bath they're like, oh,

51:21 Speaker 14: we thought we were listening to the radio, but me

51:23 Speaker 14: that's playing.

51:23 Speaker 2: Yeah.

51:23 Speaker 14: Yeah, they're like, that's not it just like the song

51:26 Speaker 14: on the radio.

51:27 Speaker 2: Oh thank you.

51:28 Speaker 14: I really appreciate that.

51:29 Speaker 2: Oh wow, oh that's cool. That's cool. Well, we are

51:33 Speaker 2: running out of time. I do want to play one

51:34 Speaker 2: more song, but I also want to make sure very

51:38 Speaker 2: very important. Where should our listeners go? Where's the best

51:41 Speaker 2: place to go to keep up with everything that you.

51:43 Speaker 14: Are, everything that you that I'm doing. You guys can

51:46 Speaker 14: find everything on Facebook. You can add me right on Facebook,

51:49 Speaker 14: Stephen de Keier. You can also add my music page

51:51 Speaker 14: just Steven de Keer Music. Okay, I'm going to be

51:54 Speaker 14: having Matt Hunterton build me a website pretty soon talking

51:58 Speaker 14: about off the air absolutely, and yeah, you can find

52:01 Speaker 14: out where I'm playing every single month. I post all

52:03 Speaker 14: my monthly dates, weekly dates as well. You'll find out

52:06 Speaker 14: where I'm playing every single weekend, okay, and all the

52:09 Speaker 14: fun stuff about my own music coming out.

52:11 Speaker 2: And you should definitely spell your last name for our listeners.

52:13 Speaker 14: Yes, my last name is spelled d E c U

52:16 Speaker 14: I r E and it's pronounced Q.

52:19 Speaker 2: Is that a rare name?

52:20 Speaker 14: It's French Canadian? Yeah, there are a lot of Yeah,

52:25 Speaker 14: I think it's like from like Louisiana. Oh really, yeah, yeah,

52:28 Speaker 14: you find it a lot in Louisiana.

52:29 Speaker 2: Oh, okay, I have a very rare last name, you do.

52:32 Speaker 2: There are very very few Connortons. Yes, there is another

52:35 Speaker 2: Matt Connorton right here in New Hampshire, but he's yeah,

52:37 Speaker 2: but he's my uncle, so it kind of doesn't and

52:39 Speaker 2: then I did find another Matt Connorton somewhere else, but

52:42 Speaker 2: he spells it co O N and E R t

52:44 Speaker 2: o n okay, which actually is the more common common

52:47 Speaker 2: spelling spell, even though there's very few. There's just very

52:51 Speaker 2: few contortants. Generally. There are some contortants in the Boston area. Yeah,

52:55 Speaker 2: but I think they all spell it c O N

52:56 Speaker 2: and E R t O N. So yeah, I have

52:58 Speaker 2: a very I was joking at the top of the

53:00 Speaker 2: show saying, you know, there's gonna be a new website

53:03 Speaker 2: Matt Connorton dot Live. And I was saying to Jenny,

53:06 Speaker 2: I said, uh, this might surprise you, but it's very

53:09 Speaker 2: easy to get a domain with Matt Connorton in it.

53:14 Speaker 14: Because nobody else.

53:20 Speaker 2: There's no other Matt Connorton on the website certainly, so

53:23 Speaker 2: it's very very easy. All right. So, Stephen de Cure,

53:26 Speaker 2: thank you so much, Thank you very much, appreciate it.

53:28 Speaker 2: This has been absolutely wonderful. And what should we play

53:31 Speaker 2: to close out the segment?

53:32 Speaker 14: Well, what do you think? And we were talking off

53:34 Speaker 14: the air about Quiet Moments being in that upcoming film.

53:38 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, anything more that you can You were telling.

53:41 Speaker 14: Us my friend Catherine Taylor. She she had messaged me

53:46 Speaker 14: after our last interview on here about Quiet Moments when

53:50 Speaker 14: I played that live on the air, and she said,

53:53 Speaker 14: we absolutely love Quiet Moments. She goes, and we have

53:55 Speaker 14: a spot, a particular scene in a film that I'm

53:59 Speaker 14: working on a direct right now that we think Quiet

54:01 Speaker 14: Moments would go great and oh wow, and she asked

54:04 Speaker 14: me if they could put it in the film. I said, yes,

54:06 Speaker 14: so waiting, I'll probably here back in about a week

54:09 Speaker 14: or two and I'll know all the details for it.

54:12 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic.

54:13 Speaker 14: Guys, want to just follow me on Facebook. You guys

54:15 Speaker 14: will find out all about that as well.

54:17 Speaker 2: Outstanding. Oh that's very exciting. So that's a perfect way

54:20 Speaker 2: to end the segment. So we will end with this

54:22 Speaker 2: Quiet Moments. If you are listening live on Saturday stick around.

54:26 Speaker 2: Coming up in our number three, we have Charles Richardson

54:30 Speaker 2: joining us online all the way from the great state

54:32 Speaker 2: of Florida. He is the host of the Charles Richardson Show.

54:35 Speaker 2: And we're going to be talking about WrestleMania Weekend. It

54:37 Speaker 2: is upon us. So I look forward to that and

54:40 Speaker 2: I hope you do as well. But we will close

54:43 Speaker 2: out with this Quiet moments. The album or I'm Sorry.

54:47 Speaker 2: The EP is one I towards the Sun and this

54:51 Speaker 2: is the great Stephen to cure Stephen again. Thank you

54:53 Speaker 2: so much, you.

54:54 Speaker 14: Guys very much. I appreciate it.

55:18 Speaker 3: Quiet moments, all the hours riding my ben runs over.

55:41 Speaker 3: Fill these pages with the stories. Rangel your way, sing

55:57 Speaker 3: for me looking out my windows. The song reads the day,

56:09 Speaker 3: birds of singing, playing tree to tree. Writing songs come

56:17 Speaker 3: so weeks. It's writing by me, Just be me, play

56:41 Speaker 3: the skids day and tune night.

56:51 Speaker 2: Create that by high.

56:55 Speaker 11: I know.

57:03 Speaker 18: Fill these pages.

57:06 Speaker 15: With joy, both store hories.

57:14 Speaker 9: Arranging your way, sing for me.

57:25 Speaker 3: Looking out my window is the clouds cover.

57:28 Speaker 14: Of the day. The wind is going, ringing.

57:33 Speaker 12: Song and sway.

57:37 Speaker 3: Writing songs come sweezs me so rided by majes beardy,

58:25 Speaker 3: quiet moments, old houses, sempty nor onsn. Fill these pages.

58:50 Speaker 15: With lone stories.

58:59 Speaker 9: Range of your way, she foll me.